barton: i want to recognize my special assistant this week, junge jack kevin barton, my grandson, he's going to help with the congressional softball game this evening. we're glad to have him on the floor with us. we're here today because of something that happened back in 2007 when this body passed a bill that later became a law that effectively, beginning next year if not changed, would ban the traditional incandescent light bulb, the 00 watt bulbs, the 60 watt bulbs we've all grown up with. the bill doesn't truly ban them, it just sets an efficiency standard that current light bulbs cannot meet. the problem with this -- with the de facto ban, madam speaker is that it has the effect of taking off the market one of the least expensive options for lighting in our constituents' homes. i went to a local grocery store last week and purchased one cfl 60 watt bulb for $5.99. i purchased four 60-watt incandescent light bulbs in a four-pack for $1.50 or 37.5 cents a pie apiece. obviously a $6 light bulb is a much bigger expense to a moderate or low 46 income family than a -- or low-income fami

ok for now tom barton thank you for that update. as we just heard from over one hundred people who are still missing and feared dead in the tragedy with no official count as to why the ship went down parties or trade agreements and brings a smooth details on how the search operation is progressing. officials there actually still looking for answers here a number of theories have already been put forward but not stress none of them of really be confirmed just yet prominent one is the fact that this. overload its official capacity was one hundred forty people whereas the. one hundred eighty five people were on board at the time of its sinking also the age of this vessel was fifty five years old and there are questions being raised to whether or not it should have been used as a tourist boat on the revolver or in the in the first place some is being stunned by reports of claims made by a crew member same it had engine difficulties just before making this two day voyage to because although we have to bear in mind it's important to stres

eight passengers no chance of escape and one of russia's worst ever shipping disasters artie's tom barton reports from the site of a catastrophe. as if to demonstrate just how difficult a covering the ball there is going to be the cable holding it just snapped for the norm mighty bang the crane holding it rocked backwards and the cable whipped up against the side of the ship that cable was there to try and support the ship to try and write it before they began lifting the ship with other straps the later to be put under it is served to demonstrate just how difficult and dangerous this operation is going to be if there were divers under there they could have been in great danger from the snapping cable they'd previously been trying to turn the ship around to get into position in order that they could right the ship and then bring it up to the surface but there's a lot of other complications involved very poor visibility a lot of weight involved and a long a long and lengthy process is going to be needed we were told just recently by

children trapped inside the sunken vessel forty one people now officially confirmed dead artie's tom barton is live at the crowd at the search site with more time so twenty to forty years on it's a guess it's sad to say now that this is a work covering rather than a rescue mission tell us more about that. apparently we're having some audio trouble with tom there we'll get back with him as soon as we have our connection well it has emerged that the pleasure cruiser was not licensed to carry passengers with official reports saying that there were two hundred eight people aboard when the ship went down far more than the vessel was designed to carry our correspondent peter oliver has more from moscow. the investigation is underway to try and determine what resulted this in this catastrophic loss of life on the fall of the river. well president dmitri medvedev has been very vocal on the subject a tragedy of course of this scale reaching the highest levels of russian politics the president saying this the companies that run these kind of pleasure cruises have a duty of care to their passengers to

he's got the latest for us let's see if we can catch up with tom barton shall we and if we can't get that either let's get some expert view we're hoping to get back to our two correspondents in a second a professor from moscow's academy of water transport told us that the main causes of likely to be bad weather and poor safety regulation. there was information of the ship was overcrowded but the number of passengers.

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well that was tom barton there with more of a squeaker than a grunt and we have a more for you want to websites are to you dot com you can go online for updates on all our stories new videos and much more we're also covering the fifteenth exotic car show in moscow where weird and wacky meets fast and furious at the annual motoring events which has opened its doors to the public. and also online a bengal tiger called has become the main attraction of his do in a russia's urals and he even has his own twitter page. and coming up we'll bring you a closer look at the father of the soviet hydrogen bomb well that's right after a recap of our top stories coming up in just a few moments. it's . just such a. sick. sick. sick. sick sick. sick sick sick sick. sick sick. sick sick sick sick sick .

and taken to a nearby ship have reached a clearly distressed at their ordeal our correspondent tom barton is in the republic's capital now. tom what are the chances of finding people alive at this point. well sean at the moment i'm reports in cars that can start such fans capital where some of the survivors were brought where the ship sank the go garia went down it's a lot more to further downstream from here and it's a ship sank very fast in three minutes or so which is going down in a very remote area and very fast it was strong currents that are prevalent in the volga river very wide where that ship sunk may have contributed to the pier that a hundred people or so my husband unfortunately drowned help did arrive and earlier when we managed to speak to one of the survivors and also to one of the health minister of russia who commented on the efforts to try and help people. all right thank you tom tom pardon the reporting there. the. parking. pass without stopping to signal to them but they just passed as why then just one should start to rescue a muslim but how would you know little of

in moscow and tom barton at the scene of the rescue operation in their pocket of the stone thank you very. and i believe that we're going to have some video of some of the rescue efforts in the dive where the divers right to exist see that it's. there we go to rescue divers at the sea on the volga river over the sea going down to see what they can do with the sunken boats at the bottom we're told that it's very unlikely they'll be any survivors at this stage but some very very distressing scenes indeed which of course will bring you more details of what may have happened for throughout the day on russia today these pictures still coming in at r.t. of finances and support impossible to imagine that other relatives can be going through the relatives have been waiting on the shore. very distressing scenes wondering what's happened to their loved ones emergencies ministry saying that mechanical failure may have been to blame for what actually happened with the spirits and the ship itself was called the guerrier was a double decker pleasure. built in the former checkers of arcturian nine

russia's republic of terror stan twenty three of the bodies recovered so far are children artie's tom barton has the latest from the scene and you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. at the moment two hundred divers are working out in the volga three kilometers from the bank in shifts searching room by room inside the sunken bug area pleasure cruiser and behind me because riverport the number of flowers and cuddly toys and candles that are piling up against the walls of the river port here continues to grow over there's also another feeling growing here was well as of grief and that's of anger and questions increasingly growing out of the revelations that keep emerging about the ship just earlier here at the river port a former captain off that ship the bulgaria came and revealed some alarming details about the ship's life before its last voyage. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven the ship hadn't even been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators repeatedly mention that the management and even had

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tom barton reporting there for us and we've got more on russia's worst boating accident on our web site log onto our t. dot com to watch the footage of the recovery efforts of divers on the volga river and there's also an interview with a former captain of the doomed ship says it was in no condition to sail long before the sinking. to other stories now india authorities have declared a state of high alert in cities across the country following three coordinated bombings that hit mumbai seventeen people are confirmed dead and over one hundred injured no one so far claimed responsibility however investigators say that a domestic terrorist group the indian mujahideen my being involved it's the deadliest terror attack in mumbai since november two thousand and eight when ten gunmen carried out a three day raid killing one hundred sixty six people for more we can now cross live to new delhi and speak to research fellow in seat of conflict management kamar saying thank you very much for being here this mr singh now unlike previous attacks so no one's going to claim any involvement so how do yo

search and rescue teams worked throughout the night and the recovery operation continues today tom barton is monitoring the efforts. the hunt is still on going for any possible survivors the count but the emergencies ministry has set up behind me next to the ball go on a small beach here small boats keep coming to and from this site and they're part of the largest search effort this is screening the area where the ball carrier pleasure cruise sank to try and find any people still in the water although that looks looking increasingly unlikely now or scattered on some of the small islands around where the boat sank we heard from one of their spokesman earlier about what they found when they reached the scene of the sunken pleasure cruise a. lot of the boats whole we could for an answer but unfortunately there was not the flashlights and the cargo holds and the restrooms. there. the scene that unfolded yesterday was one of a quiet sunday afternoon river cruise along the volga many many people do this is very popular among tourists in the summer to travel along the volga in pleasure cruises u

away or are we reestablished our connection with tom barton live at the search scene here in tatarstan good to have you with us so twenty four hours later i guess safe to say now that this is a recovery rather than a rescue operation tell us more about. it is now more of a recovery operation done a rescue operation we've been talking to the emergencies ministry officials here at their base camp on the bank of the volga the closest point to where the boat sank and they have shown videos that have been taken by their teams of divers that have been going down to the boat very graphic videos showing those divers exploring the sunken ship and bringing up the bodies. of those divers and those officials have also said that they have pretty much given up hope now of finding anyone still alive everywhere that they could have searched for someone who could have survived that's pretty much been searched through has also been continued from so obviously over the number of people but it all starts from the fact that it was supposed to hold one hundred forty feet but then various estimates have been

tom barton reporting their time now to update you on some other international news in our world update this hour to vienna first and thousands of mourners have joined the imperial style funeral of the last of the austria-hungary empire people gathered to pay tribute to crown prince otto von berg the sort of austria's last emperor of european royals and political leaders who were in attendance prince had spoke died earlier this month at the age of ninety eight and has been buried in the imperial crypt. despite warnings from china u.s. president barack obama has held a private meeting with the exiled tibetan spiritual leader the dalai lama chinese government earlier called on the united states to cancel the talks saying it would damage relations between the country's leaders are expected to discuss the dalai lama's hopes for tibet to be semi autonomous and chinese accuse them of pushing for full. independence. yet as one of president hugo chavez is to return to cuba for more cancer treatment including chemotherapy has been given approval from the national assembly for the trip was requir

the water by a passing ship and taken to the republic's capital for treatment our correspondent tom barton has more details. it is known that they were the conditions that time were difficult but whatever happened the ship sank within three minutes which meant that a lot of the people didn't even have time to put on their life jackets before getting into the water as people are basically buried alive as if in a metal sickle for this and managed to get three different things there was my ten year old daughter i couldn't risk and here she swallowed too much more than when i was pulled out a realised my child was absent we still don't know where to look for survivors there were a lot of children on board even more than ellis my only came running to me and my husband to three minutes before the sheets and told us please we live chickens as the vessel is sinking i couldn't believe it you can be. telephoning everyone trying to learn anything about alan diehl ones you can call the police but they said to conduct a search and rescue service with deed there was no reply so again here to find out at

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taken to a nearby ship have reached cazan clearly distressed at their ordeal our correspondent tom barton is in the republic's capital now tom it is it late into the night right now what are the chances of finding anyone alive. well sean here in kazakhstan upstream from where the bulk area river ferry sank they've brought some of the survivors that have been found and they feed them to going psychological treatment for any trauma they may have experienced a down where the down river where the boat sank it's a lot more remote that is a lot less infrastructure around there also strong currents in a very wide part of the volga and when the but i got into trouble yesterday around two pm it's not quite known why it sank but it sank very fast in just three minutes which gave the passengers very little time to prepare to get a life jackets on they were into the water very fast and they play it now with a very strong currents that may have caused many people to drown that's what the search is going on for the moment the survivors that have been recovered we managed to hear from some of them. anyt

including those of dozens of children almost one hundred people now confirmed dead our correspondent tom barton has the latest. operations continue him from the volga bank south of with divers and other teams going out to try and recover more bodies from the sun can reveal a pleasure cruise. the ball carrier meanwhile in because on itself today is a day of mourning huge crowds fountains of people gathered on the pier next to the river boat station in cars to show their respects to those that died in the sinking of the ship as a mark of respect ships were sailing the volga participated in a blowing of their horns and a minute's silence followed to try and show respect for the dead. we went amongst the crowds and asked some of the people there what they were feeling about the aftermath of this tragic attack for. the most we study together for a year she never had arguments with anyone sure's a very kind girl and was always ready to help it's sort of. where ambulance workers a colleague was in that ship she wanted to cruise together was family husband five year old son and also she was pregnant or

funerals have been held in the republic of tatarstan as russia continues to mourn the victims tom barton reports. this is the happy scene that should have seen this ship is designed almost identically to the bulgaria in this room almost identical to the one that children on that ship played in but for whatever reason their fate was very different. as crowds gathered in remembrance of those killed by the sinking of the volga pleasure boat it was the younger victims that seemed to cast the longest shadow. these schoolgirls had lost one of their classmates. the most we studied together for a year she never had arguments with a new one she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. as divers reached the play room one of the bokhari is arthur texas they found the bodies of the children that had gathered there just before the boat sunk. muslim once inside the boat the bodies were everywhere to look forward and cabins for the most.

sunday earlier they reported finding more than one hundred corpses trapped inside the ship artie's tom barton is live with us at the search site hello tom so it's been twenty four hours now since the boat went down at this point can we say that the rescue operation the operation has moved from a rescue effort to a recovery effort. i think that would be fair to say max at the moment the merges the services people we have said spoken to they still running boats behind me from this little strip of sand they've been doing it hour in our out going out to the ball going to try and search the area the little eyelets around where the boat sank they thought people might have gone to and by chance anyone on any beaches or parts of the water they've not found anything so far and they hope seems to be dwindling that they are going to find any survivors now so the focus seems to be moving towards going to the ship and trying to go inside it and to recover bodies that are suspected to be inside inside that ship the journey of the ship and the way that it the way that it sank is has been the focus of a lot

of them children a week later the operation to raise the ship from the bottom is underway as tom barton reports the bulgaria is still under the water at the moment behind me you can probably see the tops of two enormous cranes that have been brought up from further downstream and they're attached to them or is it an enormous cable that goes down and is threaded underneath the ship and that cable is going to be used first of all at the moment divers and the crane teams are in the process of trying to write that will garrett was leaned on his left side and then once they've right to be able to start to lift it up a lot of the complications that divers are facing are due to the way under speed that the ship sank. firstly the fact that it's on its left side will mean that divers will have to go under that left side as it's righted first of all to check that the ship is structurally sound to be ready to be raised and also to try and look for some of the fifteen bodies which have still to be accounted for which still haven't been found then once they start to raise the ship divers are going t

doyle: i want to thank my good friend, joe barton. it was a great game last night. but not exactly an ecoing game. cedric came within five outs of pitching a no hitter. something i've never seen in the 17 years i've been involved in the game. but in addition to that he had a group of men and women behind him that made every play when we needed to make them, had 15 hits and played almost error-free baseball, one error. when you can get away with making just one error in this game, good things are going to happen. as you know, this is the best of five series and we're currently in series 13. we had gone into the series with a 2-0 lead so we needed one more victory to retire the roll call trophy and rather than string this thing up for too much longer we decided to finish it last night. our guys played a great game but the real winners last night were our charitieser, the boys and girls club of washington, d.c., and the washington literacy council. we were able to raise a record amount of money for those organizations, over $150,000 to those groups that are doing reall

charged with spying for foreign state two days later tbilisi pointed the finger at moscow when as tom barton reports many see it as a witch hunt. georgia is on a spy role and not for the first time this time the spotlights being shined on those usually behind the camera for photographers were arrested on thursday on suspicion of spying but who was there suppose it must but first georgian authorities didn't say who they thought the alleged spies were working for but a day later they did russia in turn moscow has accused georgia of paranoia the georgians are so quick to stick a supplier label on to anyone i guess is just a level of democracy and that has been noticed not just by russia but by various key international organizations like the un one of the photographers was released without charge the other three were charged with espionage and will remain in pretrial custody for two months one of them has gone on hunger strike in protest however georgian president mikheil saakashvili is personally the target for has reportedly made a video confession admitting to spying the russian opposition f

people were on board when the boat got into trouble around half of them have perished artie's tom barton is near the rescue operation h.q. in tatarstan. the people here have been waiting hour upon hour with their heads down they haven't wanted to talk to was the media and this is exactly what they were fearing most some of them may be related to these young victims some of them to other victims on board the boat some of them may still not have heard about the people they love but this is certainly a great blow and puts a lot of confirmation to the fears of rescuers and their like that none of those children inside that room managed to escape the the people looking inside the boat have tried to piece together what may have happened and people have been asking you questions about what may have happened if we try and glanced back at the journey that this boat took it was sailing along the volga river popular river cruise location lots of lots of people on their weekends and on their holidays and some a light to go along that when the boat got very rapidly into trouble and when i say very ra

bodies trapped inside the sunken ball garia artie's correspondents are following developments tom barton is in a rescue operation headquarters near tatarstan and italian overcover is live for us in moscow hello to you both first to tom how is the rescue our housing recovery operation progressing at this moment. will not it currently stands rather like this there were now two hundred eight people said to be on the boat after some debate about that that's been settled at two hundred ninety two hundred ninety people which is far more than the boat was supposed to hold one hundred forty has a sea of those that have been rescued and at the moment there's fifty three bodies that's have been recovered from the ship we spoke to the emergencies ministry earlier which is coordinating efforts here but they said the prospect of finding other people survivors is now bleak. just from all. of the divers a sweep in the bottom of the river the boats been searched by sectors and decks to examine is closer but there is very bad visibility the waves are quite high and this is also making the world difficult

investigation hopes to uncover how the disaster happened first though let's get up to date with tom barton he's near the rescue operation h.q. and. tom very good evening the discovery of these young victims is the confirmation of so many people where you are didn't want to hear isn't it. absolutely kevin the people here have been waiting hour upon hour with their heads down they haven't wanted to talk to was the media and this is exactly what they were fearing most some of them may be related to these young victims some of them to other victims on board the boat some of them may still not have heard about the people they love but this is certainly a great blow and puts a lot of confirmation to the fears of rescuers and they're like none of those children inside that room managed to escape the people looking inside the boat trying to piece together what may have happened and people have been asking questions about what may have happened so if we try and glance back at the journey that this boat took. yesterday about two pm in the afternoon it was sailing along the volga river popular river

in the red bull garage allowing the spanish two time champion to take control elsewhere johnson barton's mclaren mechanics then forgot to put the will not on altogether forcing two thousand and nine winner to retire so a lot of first time the checkered flag while that cell got the better of pole sitter and teammate mark webber for second spot rushes without finish twelve after starting from fourteen. i knew it was a very soon to become to put on the truck always. being off the truck i very moment because the grass was very very wet. with no restriction and you know because you know they're used to the fight for the big three. now there's been another incident back to two fronts plenty of riders crashing and burning on stage nine on sunday with lewis leon sunshades that can danger to take the days on as such is battling it out we have local figuring thomas burke well both during the stage and in the overall standings but mentioning coming in second on that they'd bought him cumulate says enough points to secure the yellow jersey from far with sanchez moving into second overall sunday ceas

carol but the sports star knows all too well that in a women's game in particular image matters tom barton found out what else seventy percent of the screens when it comes to her appearance on court. show. the russians coolidge big tennis to distinguish it from the ping pong match to the museums of foreigners but now russia's racket wielding darling has made it to the biggest tennis tournament the move. reassured up with is in the moon final again it's a great feeling it's been many years but it's a really great feeling and today i was in my best match of the championship so really happy to get through and to set but. it's pretty amazing when they're going to stage since her winning wimbledon in two thousand and four the real main year has turned sharapova into a star off the court as well in features and catwalks she's joined the hall of fame jaw dropping russian tennis with which she only wants to talk about the tense i told myself to just take it one point at a time and really focus and. just kind of got in my zone so we went down to one of moscow's toughest young tennis tournaments the

sport star knows all too well that in the women's game able to get at him it's not as wealthy as tom barton that's else keeps him includes the screens and the comes to her appearance on court. that. was. the russians call it big tennis to distinguish it from the ping pong match to the amusement of foreigners but now russia's racket wielding darling has made it to the biggest and installment of the more. reassuring up of the is in the womb final again it's a great feeling it's been many years but it's a really great feeling where today i was in my best match of the championship so really happy to get through in two sets but. it's pretty amazing that i can at stage since her win at wimbledon in two thousand and four maria mania has turned sharapova into a star off the court as well on peaches and catwalks she's joined the hall of fame with jaw dropping russian tennis woman but she only wants to talk about the tennis but i told myself to just take it one point at a time and really focus and then i thought like i just kind of got in my zone so we went down to one of moscow's toughest young tenn

barton. mr. barton: thank you, congressman hoyer. it has been my pleasure to serve for 26 years on the energy and commerce committee with the distinguished gentleman who is having his 85th birthday. what some of our newer members may not know is what a gentleman chairman dingell is and the uniqueness of his character is that he will impact his wisdom to those of us in the opposition party and encourage us to then go out and use it against him knowing that he is smart enough, tough enough and effective enough to beat us at our own game. he is truly a paragon of this congress and will go down in my estimation in history as one of the top 10 congressmen or women of all time. i want to extend him my warmest 85th birthday wishes and get him to guarantee that as long as he is able he will serve in this body because he is truly a treasure for both sides of the aisle. mr. hoyer: i know that all of us -- those of you who are new to this body, what mr. barton has just said, if you want an example of a truly great legislator, a legislator who h

tom barton he's in public because somewhere commemoration services are indeed due to begin there tom a difficult day for the republican indeed difficult day for the country but what's going on where you are right now well kerry behind me i'm sure you can see the amount of flowers that are starting to be laid against the riverboat station here in cazan which was to be the final point of the of this cruise of the ship the bull guard here is growing the number of flowers there is growing as is the number of people coming here to pay their respects and to share their grief over what happened on sunday there's also a number of funerals that are starting today twenty three of the families who lost people in the sinking of this ship are going to start burying their relatives today there's now been sixty five people confirmed dead from the sinking that number is expected to change as it's known that there are more bodies still trapped in the ship under the waters of the volga later on more people and more flowers are expected here and as they continue so will the recovery efforts at the scen

overloaded pleasure cruise that sank in the republic of tatarstan on sunday our correspondent tom barton has the latest from. some homes blowing in a memorial tribute to those that died this is a large river with many craft traveling up and down it a lot of the crews on most ships leave knowing the crew on the bulgaria. paying their respects to the ship that sank. we still hope to do this. survives with your house in an air pocket or some other way but here we still believe that our little angel is alive for the start of. where ambulance workers a colleague was in the chip she wanted crews to get it was friendly husband five year old son she was pregnant it was to deliver her second baby noticed she's not found yet only husband managed to survive she interest until i was. there are thousands of people that have turned out here to the river boat station in khazan which was to be the stopping point of the bulgaria on its pleasure cruise up the volga they've come to lay flowers and to pay their respects to the people who drowned either trying to get out of the ship or those who were trapped

by a passing a ship and taken to the republic's capital cazan for treatment our correspondent tom barton has more details now tom what are the chances of finding people alive at this point. well scholem to place on the river where the prize has sunk it's a downstream from the region's capital khazan it's a very remote place the river it's a very wide stretch of the river with strong currents and that's what a bright wood says was heading along yesterday afternoon when it ran into difficulties and those difficulties the kind of catastrophe very very fast just three minutes in fact it's not yet known why the bank started last but i with this does survive a search that they report that the boat being lurch violently to the right people somebody were literally being thrown off the side of the boats i'm very strong currents and now what book rescuers and. the main of course many people to drown i one hundred ninety five people on the by three of those are now confirmed dead one hundred of them over one hundred from are still missing how did arrive soon enough to help some people at least.

four year old has become the inspiration for an entire generation of tennis players artie's tom barton's been looking into the secrets of sharapova success. was. that. the russians call it big tennis to distinguish it from ping pong much to the amusement of foreigners but now russia's racket wielding darling has made it to the biggest tennis tournament in the more i reassured up of the is in the moon final again it's a great feeling it's been many years but it's a really great feeling and today i was in my best match of the championship so really happy to get there and to set but. it's pretty amazing that stage since her win it wimbledon in two thousand and four maria mania has turned up with it into a star off the court as well in features and catwalks she's joined the hall of fame jaw dropping russian tennis we know but she only wants to talk about the tense i told myself to just take it one point at a time and really focus and then i thought ok this kind of got in my zone so we went down to one of moscow's toughest young tennis tournaments the club here claims to be the home of tomorr

hundred seven people wrong board when that boat capsized around half of them have perished artie's tom barton is near the rescue operation h.q. in tatarstan. the people here have been waiting hour upon hour with their heads down they haven't wanted to talk to was the media some of them may be related to these young victims some of them to other victims on board the boat some of them may still not have heard about the people they love but this is certainly a great blow and puts a lot of confirmation to the fears of rescuers and their like that none of those children inside that room managed to escape to try and glance back at the journey that this pope took it was sailing along the volga river popular river cruise location lots of lots of people on the weekends and on the holidays and some a light to go along that when the boat got very rapidly into trouble and when i say very rapidly the whole thing had gone underwater in under three minutes this is what gave rise to such a terrible death toll of the fact that people didn't even have time to put on their life jackets or to organize a proper k